Designing an Expert System to Diagnose and Propose about Therapy of Leukemia

Expert systems are designed for non-expert individuals with the aim of providing skills of qualified personnel. These programs simulate the pattern of thinking and the manner of how human operates and causes the operation of expert systems to be close to operations of human or an expert. Variety of expert systems has been yet offered in the field of medical science and in this respect it is one of the leading sciences. Leukemia is very common and serious cancer starts in blood tissue such as the bone marrow. It causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood. Speed is always effective in diagnosis and treatment of Leukemia and recovery of patients, but sometimes there is no access to specialists for patients and because of this reason designing a system with specialist knowledge, that offers the diagnosis and appropriate treatment to patients, provides the timely treatment of patients. In this paper an expert system has been presented for diagnosis of Leukemia using VP-Expert shell.